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Brian Armstrong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
253 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

Our democracy needs to figure this out.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

It's not our main focus.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

Well, you're right that there are emerging markets where people have the least access to financial services.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

And so they have kind of the biggest pain point.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

And we are seeing a lot of adoption.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

I think by some metrics, places like India and Turkey and Nigeria are actually per capita some of the biggest adopters of crypto.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

But it doesn't mean it's not going to be used in the United States.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

I mean, we started in the US.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

It's still the vast majority of our revenue.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

there's something like 52 million Americans who've actually used crypto at this point.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

So it's a massive, massive user base.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

I guess what we're seeing now is that people are using Coinbase as more like their primary financial account.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

There's kind of the younger generation who are growing up

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

And they want to be able to deposit their paycheck, trade crypto, but they also want to trade stocks.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

They want to trade prediction markets.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

They want to trade commodities.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

They want to send money instantly anywhere in the world and maybe get a loan.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

And they can just get access to better financial services through an app like Coinbase.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

And so that's what we're trying to build.

Bloomberg Talks
Brian Armstrong Talks Future of Digital Assets

We call it the everything exchange where it's like literally every asset class tradable on one platform.